Malaysia Airlines 777 with 295 passengers and crew crashes in Ukraine

A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 carrying 280 passengers and 15 crew has crashed in Ukraine.
The flight, MH17, was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia Airlines said in a statement that “it received notification from Ukrainian ATC that it had lost contact with flight MH17 … approximately 50km from the Russia-Ukraine border.”
The flight departed Amsterdam at 12:15pm local time.

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